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The Fifth Major,

The Players Championship

By:

Fred Altvater

The 42

nd

edition of The Players Championship

will be contested May 12-15. It is annually

held at one of the most difficult golf courses in

the world, the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass

and boasts a stronger field than any major

championship, but is not considered a major

by golf’s criteria.

Before professional golf became the standard

by which the world’s best golfers judged

their game, the majors consisted of the U.S.

Open, U.S. Amateur, British Open and British

Amateur. Those are the four events Bobby Jones

won in 1930 to capture his “Grand Slam.”

Over the years the world’s top amateurs

have found it more lucrative to try their

hand at professional golf. Thus the world’s

major tournaments are now all professional

events, The Masters, U.S. Open, The Open

Championship and the PGA Championship.

There is one more event that annually receives

the moniker as the game’s ’Fifth Major,’ The

Players Championship.

The Players Championship field consists of

144 golfers from the following criteria:

1. Winners of PGA Tour events since last

Players

2. Top 125 from previous season’s FedEx

Cup points list

3. Top 125 from current season - Medical

Extension

4. Major champions from the past five years

5. Players Championship winners from the

past five years

6. The Tour Championship winners from the

past three years

7. World Golf Championship winners from

the past three years

8. Memorial Tournament and Arnold Palmer

Invitational winners since 2015

9. Top 50 from the Official World Golf

Ranking

10. Senior Players champion from prior year

11.

Web.com

Tour money leader from prior

season

12. Money leader during the

Web.com

Tour

Finals, if not the regular-season money

leader

13. Top 10 current year FedEx Cup points

leaders

14. Remaining positions and alternates filled

through current year FedEx Cup standings

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